Essential Questions How can educators create meaningful lessons for all students to ensure they acquire understandings & truths, develop problem solving skills, and become active participants in the local and global community?
Enduring Understandings Careful planning and design is essential to creating lessons that address the variety of learning styles and abilities of our students.
Overview Staff will review the following resources and discuss them. It is assumed that these topics are not new to most of the staff and are intended to be a review of some commonly accepted practices in education. Reflect back on this session as you proceed with Session Four later in the day.
Understanding by Design Read the Article "UbD in a Nutshell" to gain a basic understanding of the Understanding by Design model of designing lessons by Grant Wiggins.
Essential Questions
How can educators create meaningful lessons for all students to ensure they acquire understandings & truths, develop problem solving skills, and become active participants in the local and global community?
Enduring Understandings
Careful planning and design is essential to creating lessons that address the variety of learning styles and abilities of our students.
Overview
Staff will review the following resources and discuss them. It is assumed that these topics are not new to most of the staff and are intended to be a review of some commonly accepted practices in education. Reflect back on this session as you proceed with Session Four later in the day.
Understanding by Design
Read the Article "UbD in a Nutshell" to gain a basic understanding of the Understanding by Design model of designing lessons by Grant Wiggins.
Multiple Intelligences
Take the Multiple Intelligences Quiz by edutopia
Read the interviews by some well known artists and scientists related to their multiple intelligences by edutopia
Review a few examples of how teachers are implementing multiple intelligences in the classroomby edutopia
Watch the video
PBS - Overview of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Bloom's Taxonomy
Visit this Thinkfinity link to review some resources related to Bloom's taxonomy including an updated wheel of skills
Differentiation
View this wiki created by Angela Cunningham
Differentiated Instruction - by Staff Development for Educators